"Let There Be Wi-Fi" by Robert McChesney and John Podesta

"Let There Be Wi-Fi" by Robert McChesney and John Podesta is a telling account of why the US is rapidly becoming a backwater in the world of the wireless internet.

While about 60 percent of U.S. households do not subscribe to broadband because it is either unavailable where they live or they cannot afford it, most Japanese citizens can access a high-speed connection that's more than 10 times faster than what's available here for just $22 a month. (Japan is now rolling out ultra-high speed access at more than 500 times what the Federal Communications Commission considers to be “broadband” in this country.)